Manifold billing-board.



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MANIFOLD BILLING BOARD.

APPLICATION FILED JULYa, 1908 Patented Jan. 26, 1909.

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ATTORNEY `PHILIP HANO, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

MANIFOLD BILLING-BOARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 26, 1909.

` Application led July 8, 1908. Serial No. y442,598.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIP I-IANO, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented newy and useful Improvements in Manifold Billing-Boards, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved billing board comprising a body part or table portion adapted to sup ort a sales sheet or sales book leaf, and a ho der or clamp for engaging a bill or bill head with a manifolding or carbon sheet, the latter being interposed between the bill and the sales sheet whereby the sales sheet will receive a duplicate of the entry on the bill head.

The details of the invention are set forth in the following specification and `claims and illustrated in the annexed drawing in which :-l i

Figure 1 is a plan view of a billing board embodying this invention. Fig. 2 is a side or edge view of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section along x x Fig. 1.

In this drawing is shown a billing board comprising a board or body portion a. This body or table portion is adapted to su port a sales sheet Suitable corner poc iets or metallic receiving portions c will hold the sales sheet on the table a against shifting while in use or being written on.

A bill head or bill is shown at d and a carbon or manifolding sheet at e. The latter is interposed between the bill and the sales sheet and the notations on the bill will be duplicated or reproduced on the sales sheet which after being written on both sides can be bound into a sales book or binder or suitably reserved for reference.

A holder in form of` a clamp or jaws is shown at f g and a handle 7b or rock shaft t carrying one of the jaws asf can beused to open the jaws for the introduction or removal of a bill or carbon sheet. spring closed or automatic. This clamp or holder is carried by a slide 7c adapted to move along guide rails or rods m. Such a guide is shown at each side of the table. The slide 7c by its two end or sleeve portions n slides along these guides and can be fixed by a Fig. 4 is a section along 'y y Fig. 1.

The jawfis clamp means such as a thumb screw o so that it cannot shift on the guide while writing or notation is going on.

An index or pointer p can be set to and ixed at a suitable point on guide m and ar- 'rest the slide k. Say a bill is placed in the holder f and the holder xed by clamp screw o. Then the index is adjusted and iiXed to the guide at a oint to mark the last line of writing on bill one item or more as required. This writing being completed is reproduced on sales sheet b. The bill d is then removed, the screw o is loosened and the holder f slid along the guide to the pointer p. A succeeding bill or blank is then inserted in the holder and written on and the copy of such succeeding bill will be in its turn noted on the sales sheet so that its first line or starting ortion will come close to the last line or en of the preceding notation on the sales sheet. W aste of space is thus avoided as the sales sheet b is thus closely filled by the reproduced or manifold copies of the several bills.

What I claim is 1. A manifold billing board comprising a bodyportion, stationary guide rails at each side of and spaced from said body portion7 a slide movable on said rails, means for securing the slide to said rails, and a pointer slidably mounted on one of the guide rails, the said slide on the guide rails provided with clamps for removably holding a bill-head and carbon-sheet.

` 2. A manifold billing-board comprising a body portion, corner pockets on said body portion for holding a sales sheet in place, a stationary guide rail at each side of and spaced from said body portion, an adjustable s ide on said rails, said slide carrying a combined bill head and carbon sheet holder, and a pointer on one of the guide rails for indicating the termination of writing on the sales sheet.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. s

PHILIP HANO. Witnesses:

EDWARD WIEsNER, CHRISTIAN ALMsTAEDT. 

